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Balance
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Sport Science Mind Map on Balance, created by Justin Lao on 25/09/2018.
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Balance
State of equilibrium, maintaining COG, and upright posture
Made up of somatosensory, visual, and vestibular
Somatosensory
Located in joints, skin, muscles, and ligaments
Proprioceptive info about length, tension, pain, pressure, and joint positioning
How do we assess?
Can be with eyes open versus close but mainly focuses on change of surface
What do we look out for?
Unsteadiness due to fear of falling or lack of postural strategies
Visual
Using vision to determine motion of objects, oneself in the environment, orientation, and postural movement
Children rely on this heavily
How do you assess?
In a quiet standing position with eyes open versus close
What do we look out for?
Hemianopsia, pursuits, saccades, double vision, and gaze control
Vestibualr
Provides feed back to CNS on relation of head with gravity
semicircular canals filled with endolymph (fluid)
Response based on this fluid in the head
Based on acceleration/deceleration
How do we assess?
DixHallpike maneuver, bithermal caloric testing, head thrust sign, and vestibuloocular reflex test
What do we look out for?
Feeling of fear, dizziness, feeling of nausea
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